Conferences & Symposia

Roundtable on Clinical Trials and Access to Essential Medicines in African Countries

October 29-30, 2015

International Roundtable on Clinical Trials
and Access to Essential Medicines in African Countries

October 29-30, 2015

Maryland Carey Law
500 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

An international group of legal scholars and medical researchers will examine ethical and legal challenges to developing and distributing essential medicines in African countries.

The program, which is co-sponsored by the Law & Health Care and International and Comparative Law Programs at Maryland Carey Law, along with the Faculty of Law at Chancellor College in Malawi will focus on four topics:

Access to essential medicines as a human right

The law and ethics of clinical trials: what rules should govern clinical research in Africa?